Authors

Bamako-based. Has covered three coups and the withdrawal of French forces from the Sahel.

Lagos-based. Covers oil politics, energy transition, and the geopolitics of African electrification. PhD in energy economics from UCL.

New Delhi-based. Covers the Galwan aftermath, Himalayan border disputes, and India's strategic competition with China.

Mogadishu and Nairobi split. Covers Somali politics, maritime insecurity, and the Horn's geoeconomic position.

Belgrade-based. Covers Serbian-EU relations, Kosovo's recognition politics, and the Vučić system's durability.

Radio France Internationale alumna. Covered the Sahel security crisis from Bamako to N'Djamena. Speaks Wolof, French, and passable Arabic.

Cairo-based. Has watched the promise of 2011 become the surveillance state of today. Still writing.

Bucharest-based. Covers Romanian anti-corruption politics, EU enlargement, and Moldova's Western pivot.

Helsinki-based. Covered Finland's NATO accession and what it means to share 1,300km of border with Russia.

Former Indian Army officer, now covering South Asian security, nuclear doctrine, and India's great-power ambitions.

Covers Standing Rock to Wet'suwet'en — Indigenous sovereignty, resource politics, and treaty law.

Dushanbe-based. Covers the Amu Darya water crisis, Chinese investment in Tajikistan, and the Tajik-Afghan border.

Stockholm-based. Covers the Islamic Republic's politics from diaspora distance with extensive sourcing inside.

Lisbon-based. Covered COP since Paris. Tracks the gap between climate pledges and physical reality.

Harare-based. Covers Zimbabwe's perpetual political crisis, SADC, and South Africa's regional foreign policy.

Johannesburg-based. Covers load-shedding, Eskom, unemployment, and the structural constraints on South African growth.

Former CONICET researcher turned journalist. Covered five presidential elections and one default. Macroeconomics obsessive.

Santiago-based. Covered the 2019 estallido, the constitutional process, and Boric's presidency.

Brussels-based for fifteen years. Knows where the Berlaymont bodies are buried. Covers institutional politics and corporate lobbying.

Rome-based. Covered the rise of Brothers of Italy and the mainstreaming of European nationalist parties.

Abuja-based. Covers gender politics in Nigeria — from legislative seats to land rights to healthcare policy.

Covers the intersection of athletics, nationalism, and geopolitics — from doping politics to Olympic diplomacy.

Nairobi-based. Covers anti-corruption prosecutions, asset recovery, and the politics of judicial independence in East Africa.

Tbilisi-based Russian-speaker. Covers Putin's foreign policy, occupied territories, and the diaspora opposition.

Istanbul-based with stints in Beirut, Baghdad, and Almaty. Covered the Syrian war and its refugee fallout across six countries.

Johannesburg-based. Covers BRICS expansion, the Global South's institutional ambitions, and South Africa's diplomatic choices.

Bishkek-based. Covers Kyrgyzstan's rotating political crises, CSTO politics, and the political economy of remittances.

Tashkent and Istanbul split. Covers the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, post-Karimov Uzbekistan, and Chinese infrastructure politics.

Riyadh-based. Covers Vision 2030, Gulf Cooperation Council dynamics, and the slow liberalization of Saudi society.

Geneva and Zurich split. Covers the BIS, Swiss banking secrecy, and the geopolitics of financial sanctions.

Accra-based. Covers youth activism, #EndSARS aftermath, and the new generation of African civic organising.

Bratislava-based. Covers Robert Fico's return to power, Slovakia's EU/NATO loyalty strains, and civil society resistance.

Prague-based. Covers democratic backsliding across Central Europe and the EU's rule-of-law battles.

Tokyo correspondent for a decade. Covers Bank of Japan, Abenomics legacy, and Asia's debt architecture.

Tokyo and Vienna split. Covers IAEA inspections, Iran nuclear deal, and the NPT regime's fraying edges.

Beirut-based. Covered the Syrian war from 2012. Now covers reconstruction politics, the refugee return question, and Assad's rehabilitation.

Conakry-based. Covered the 2021 coup and its aftermath. Tracks ECOWAS responses to democratic backsliding.

Stockholm-based. Covers NATO's Nordic expansion, Arctic geopolitics, and Sweden's strategic pivot.

Based in Caracas and Bogotá. Has covered every election, hyperinflation, and mass migration wave since 2013.

Nairobi correspondent. Covered the Ethiopia-Tigray war, Somalia, and the politics of East African Community integration.

Prague-based. Covers Russian and Chinese disinformation operations targeting Central and Eastern Europe.

Paris-based. Covers French domestic politics, Macronisme, and France's complicated relationship with its former colonies.

Geneva-based. Covers the Human Rights Council, ICJ cases, and the slow-motion reform of multilateral institutions.

Johannesburg-based. Covers the politics of platinum, cobalt, and lithium — the minerals that will define the green transition.

Accra and London split. Covers debt restructuring, the G20 Common Framework, and the IMF's African programmes.

Spent a decade covering West African politics for AFP. Speaks five languages, thinks in three. Pan-Africanist with a nose for institutional failure.

Bogotá-based. Covered the FARC peace process from signing to implementation. Human rights lawyer by training.

Beirut-based. Covered the 2020 port explosion, the financial collapse, and the war of attrition on the southern border.

Veteran EU policy reporter. Covered four Commission presidencies and two sovereign debt crises. Deeply skeptical of press releases.

Singapore-based. Covers China's overseas investment, debt-trap debates, and the BRI's second decade.

Warsaw-based since 2020. Covered the Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya opposition and the regime's consolidation of repression.

Rome-based. Covers the Francis pontificate, the synodal process, and the Church's political entanglements.

Westminster-based. Covered every Brexit vote, three prime ministers in one year, and Labour's return to power.

Abidjan-based. Covers commodity markets, smallholder farmers, and the politics of agricultural value chains.

Manila-based. Covers Philippine politics, South China Sea disputes, and ASEAN's perpetual non-committal.

Warsaw-based. Covers the politics of historical memory, Holocaust restitution, and the history wars of Central Europe.

Brasília-based. Covers the evangelical caucus, religious nationalism, and the politics of Brazil's growing Pentecostalism.

Born in Chengdu, raised in Melbourne. Covers Beijing's foreign policy and the new cold war's architecture.

Stockholm-based. Covers the politics of gender equality, parental leave policy, and right-wing backlash in Nordic states.

Copenhagen-based. Covers Greenland's independence push, Arctic resource politics, and great-power ice competition.

New York-based. Covers the Jewish diaspora's internal politics, campus debates, and global antisemitism tracking.

Covers World Bank, IMF, and African Development Bank with a healthy skepticism for development orthodoxy.

Sofia-based. Covers Bulgaria's rule-of-law crisis, Western Balkans enlargement, and North Macedonia's name saga.

London-based. Covers the politics of race, migration, and identity across Europe and the Commonwealth.

Prague-based since 2022. Former Novaya Gazeta correspondent. Covers the Russian opposition in exile and internal repression.

London-based. Covers how African diaspora remittances shape political economies — from Lagos to Accra to Harare.

Former IDF intelligence analyst turned journalist. Covers Israel-Palestine, Iran, and Gulf realignment with rare primary-source access.

Lagos and Nairobi split. Covers fintech, digital infrastructure, and the politics of platform regulation in Africa.

Kyiv-based. Coordinates Ukrainian civil society documentation of Russian war crimes. Writes when she can.

Nairobi-based since the 2023 war. Covered Sudan's democratic transition and its collapse with rare primary access.

Port Moresby and Suva split. Covers China's Pacific push, climate displacement, and Australia's strategic scramble.

Madrid-based. Covered the Catalonia crisis, Podemos-to-Sumar arc, and Spain's shifting coalition politics.

Warsaw School of Economics grad, now covering Poland's security transformation and NATO's eastern flank.

São Paulo-based. Covered the Bolsonaro years and the Lula restoration. Covers Amazon deforestation politics.

Former Hindu BusinessLine editor. Covers South Asian geopolitics and economic policy with 15 years on the ground in Delhi, Colombo, and Dhaka.

London-based. Covers post-Brexit trade, WTO disputes, and the rewiring of global supply chains post-pandemic.

Covers digital sovereignty, surveillance capitalism, and the politics of AI regulation from Bangalore and DC.

Helsinki-based. Covers the politics of Nordic welfare retrenchment, the right-wing challenge, and what survives.

Lima-based. Covered six presidents in five years. Covers the coca economy, mining conflicts, and Andean governance.

Tokyo-based. Covers LDP factionalism, the Kishida-to-Ishiba transition, and Japan's slow political reformation.

Aden and Cairo split. Covered the Houthi advance, the Saudi intervention, and the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Ouagadougou-based. Has covered three coups. Understands exactly how jihadism, gold, and state failure compound.

Istanbul-based. Covers Erdoğan's political survival, Turkish foreign policy's multi-vector gymnastics, and Kurdish politics.

Mumbai-based. Covers Reserve Bank of India, corporate governance, and the political economy of India's growth story.

Spent five years at Animal Político investigating cartel-state relationships. Won CPJ press freedom award 2021.

Seoul correspondent. Covers North Korea's nuclear programme, inter-Korean relations, and KCNA close-reading.

Athens-based. Covers Greek debt politics, Turkey-Greece tensions, and Cyprus's gas discoveries.

Oslo-based. Covers Equinor, the sovereign wealth fund, and Norway's oil-funded green transition.

Islamabad-based. Covers Pakistani civil-military relations, Afghanistan's post-withdrawal chaos, and regional water disputes.

Johannesburg-based. Covers the Constitutional Court, ANC corruption trials, and South Africa's rule-of-law battles.

Washington-based for twelve years. Covered three administrations, two impeachments, and one pandemic. Still surprised by nothing.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City split. Covers Vietnamese Communist Party politics, US-Vietnam rapprochement, and Mekong dams.

Lampedusa and Rome split. Covers Mediterranean crossings, EU asylum law, and the politics of externalized borders.

Based in Kyiv. Has reported from the frontline every month since February 2022. Former Ukrinform international editor.

Taipei-based. Covers Taiwan's democracy, cross-strait military tensions, and the island's role in the chip wars.

Quito-based. Covers Ecuador's security crisis, narco-political infiltration, and the region's prison system.

Lagos-based. Covered every Nigerian election since 2011. Covers ECOWAS regional politics and the petro-state's slow transition.

Tokyo-based. Covers Japan's security pivot, semiconductor politics, and the slow-motion drama of Abe-era legacy policy.

Johannesburg-based. Covers the African Union's institutional politics, peace operations, and continental economic integration.

Islamabad-based after Kabul. Covered the fall and what followed. Speaks Dari, Pashto, Urdu.